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A nonsensical statement due to the fact that neither past nor future are escapable in – separable from – the present.

:up: "Biological evolution" models the development of life just as "Big Bang cosmology" models the development of the universe – neither model explain...

As long as Shillary isn't the supremely unpopular Dems nominee who carelessly throws away the election again, IMO, Traitor-Seditionist1 can't win.

Whoever the Dem candidate will be in the end will decisively beat any GOP canditate in 2024 due to a significamt "leftward" shift in support by Indepe...

MAGA Supremes are pulling the plug on stare decisis in judicial review? And yet Biden still opposes 'packing the court'. :shade:

Science "pursues knowledge" and AFAIK philosophy does not (but rather makes explicit and interprets (for flourishing) what we do not – perhaps, cannot...

Not quite true (e.g. vide T. Metzinger), but even if you're right, philosophy has only fantasy (i.e. folk psychology), not even an "idea how".

Naturalism is a conceptual paradigm, biology is a natural science, NeoDarwinian Evolution is a scientific model. Try not to confuse, or conflate, them...

At least in h. sapiens it does. Non sequitur. For starters, what difference would such a "possibility" make to us ontologically, existentially or prag...

What does some "philosophical argument" have to do with a well-tested biological theory? :mask:

:up: How are "conscious experiences" "created" without "nerve impulses"? :roll:

:up: Any "truth" that lacks a truth-maker or corroborating public evidence is reasonably discountable (Hume, Kant, Clifford, Popper, Sagan), except, a...

The "logic" may be valid but its soundness is dubious at best. An infinity of such notions "cannot be logically ruled out", but so what? Life is short...

What grounds are there to believe "we are living in a simulation"? or, more precisely, to doubt that physical reality is more – other – than a simulat...

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Non sequiturs abound.

Yes. Quantum computation (re: Seth Lloyd, Stephen Wolfram, David Deutsch).

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For the *Quantum Woo Crew* ... https://youtu.be/wIoDO1kIS6M You're welcome, gents. :smirk: @"Gnomon" encore: https://youtu.be/2nugmzlNMM0

Language usage orients language-users. Yep. Read George Lakoff et al. Nope. (Witty's 'nonsense', re: TLP) This depends on the language-game you're eng...

I'll take your latest non-answer as a concession to my edifying points here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/818106 You're welcome, W...

Cite an instance when and where Newton's 3rd Law and/or any conservation laws "have been transcended" even once. :lol:

They are only "tricky" for idealists like @"Wayfarer" who prefer to torch strawmen – mischaracterizing a speculative paradigm such as naturalism as an...

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Not "insects" per se, but entities without nervous systems (e.g. stars, rocks, cells, atoms).

I dispute the premise of your.question by countering it with my own.

Given that I'd addressed your statement, sir, please "paraphrase" what you think, not what others think. You do think for yourself, don't you? @"Jamal...

Let's keep things simple and clear, Wayfarer. I'm interested in your dogmatic statement about matter and have questioned you here https://thephilosoph...

By "mind or consciousness" you're claiming, in effect, that matter is only acted upon by immateral entities or processes – is that right?

You mean patriarchy doesn't denote 'a disproportionate control of national governments and multi-state/national corporations (re: resource investments...

:clap: :rofl: Consider again, lil MAGAt, reality on Earth One ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/816567

:up: :up: :up: If "matter does not act", then "matter" "is only acted upon" by what? Please cite an example.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LR1bWhdoIXM "Feeling Good" (2:53) I Put A Spell On You, 1965 writers L. Bricusse & A. Newley, 1964 Nina Simone * https:/...

I haven't come across any evidence or learned consensus that the "Six Galaxies" are, in fact, what they appear to be. It seems more likely than not to...

@"Wayfarer" won't because he dogmatically cannot.

Maybe under the modern label of libertarian socialism there is "total equality" ...

In this context, terms like "human" and "humanism" seem to me about as useful as "earthling" and "geocenrrism", respectively.

As opposed to a "fake" man ... :confused: Perhaps a more probative inquiry: A socio-psychological topic, however, rather than philosophical aporia, no...

Insofar as philosophy is suppositional and critical, it is not propositional or theoretical (e.g. science, history). So when did the praxis of persona...

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All things being equal, we're probably fucked (e.g. anthropic climate change). An excerpt from a thread on "The Future"...

My question suggests that civilization is inherently unstable; once they reach stability – equilibrium – they tend to (suddenly) collapse. Analogously...

I think it's more intelligible not to conflate culture with civilization than to conflate them.

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For me, 0 thru 9, this example stretches the notion of 'civilization' into incoherence.

https://www.space.com/universe-expansion-could-be-a-mirage :eyes: :yikes: